Example sentences of "they [vb past] like a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of them shaped like a mobile telephone crashed into a high voltage power line cutting off 500 homes . |
| 2 | So when the team presented three options to the review panel on April 22nd , it was no surprise that one of them looked like a truncated version of a familiar space station , Freedom — with laboratory modules attached to a girdered ‘ truss ’ that carries solar panels for generating power . |
| 3 | You know , sort her meals out and then come back home that 's why she wants them to move in with her , cos they got like a little self contained flat there |
| 4 | They seemed like a great group of standing stones upon a misty moor and he wanted to step forward and go to where they were . |
| 5 | They heaved like a single body rising up out of the earth , still covered in clinging soil ; their arms round one anothers ’ shoulders , their hair matted to a uniform colour by sweat and filth , their clothes the same moth-eaten , slept-in brown , dangling straw from their beds . |
| 6 | keith richardson says that most people thought Gloucester were going to lose but it was a great win … they looked like a different side and played exceptionally well and were lifted by the supporters |
| 7 | They looked like a comic turn . |
| 8 | To Joseph 's startled ears they sounded like a simultaneous volley of a thousand rifle shots . |